Word: soul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take the fruit of Eden offered to him in the person of a lonely girl of the Georgia coast, prisoner alike of fear and a maniacal murderer. The man who fears life's traps finally clutches at the fruit, rescuing the girl while she saves her own soul from the incubus of fear that has ridden her family. The tale is told with extraordinary vividness and pungency by King Vidor, a director who can evoke a heart-quaking spirit of mystery without a single trapdoor. Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling, Nigel de Brulier are splendid instruments...
...which the modern world is deficient. It is an art, however vain, which might restore some fragment of joy and courtesy to Vanity Fair, the only permanent institution on earth. In "A Handful of Pleasant Delights", we see the art practised with simplicity and fervor of soul, too honest and optimistically tussling with versification for the polished and invidious grace of the sonneteers Or at least it is so in the following superb example, which merits instant acceptance as the literal truth. Other verses in the book are more fluent and studied...
...India which is the setting, and the powerful practical idealism of the prophet himself. He has come as near as is humanly possible to a four-dimensional biography. He himself has caught some of the quiet fire of sincerity, of the devotion to practical idealism which is in the soul of Gandhi. Mr. Rolland has the power belonging to mystics of the utmost lucidity of expression...
...legal trial and imprisonment of one man. It tells the story of the leader of the irreconcilable East, who was crushed--consciously, inevitably, by the exigencies of the imperial West. It is not a tragedy of blood, anger, and revolution--it is a greater tragedy of mind, soul, and lack of understanding. Although Gandhi is still alive in prison, his life story has been told--as Napoleon's was told after Waterloo, as Jesus's was after Calvary. All through the story the tragedy can be felt--it is as inevitable as the human tragedy of Jesus's life...
...frequent intervals. In May, 1921, he declined to criticise Harding. By January of the next year, he assailed the Administration's Limitation of Armaments Conference as a "resort to the noisy methods of a circus" and added that the Administration had "profaned Republican history ... by forsaking the soul of Abraham Lincoln for the spleen of Henry Cabot Lodge." Two months later he attacked the Administration for refusing to participate in the Genoa Economic Conference. In succeeding speeches he advocated the League of Nations, which, amon? issues, is his great and good friend. He spent two months abroad. Since returning...